Judit Niran Frigyesi, Writing on Water: The Sounds of Jewish Prayer

Authors

A review of the book by Judit Niran Frigyesi.

Veronika Seidlová

earned her PhD in anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities (FHS), Charles University in Prague (2016). Her dissertation is a multi-sited ethnographical study of a transnational flow of Vedic mantras from India to the Czech Republic. She is currently employed as an assistant professor at the FHS, Charles University in Prague. Veronika’s articles have been published in the following journals: Journal of Urban Culture Research, Národopisná revue, and Urban People. She co-edited Music – Memory – Minorities: Between Archive and Activism (with Zuzana Jurková, 2020), and is also an author of the audio-text publication “The Forgotten Voice of the Jeruzalémská Synagogue in Prague” published by the Jewish Museum in Prague with the support of the Phonogramm-Archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (with Alexander Knapp, 2008). She was curator and head of the Center for Documentation of Popular Music and New Media in the National Museum – Czech Museum of Music.